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by spijdar 5y ago
It's been a cool minute since I've used either, but isn't this based on Windows Vista and not 7? Vista went much more all out on the aero effects and had the start menu button that "popped" out of the task bar, unli
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by spijdar 5y ago
> Presumably they'll eventually port Chrome to WASM. Then they can completely control the browsing experience. ...what? As opposed to shipping binary executables for an OS/arch combo, they'll ship a binary executable for W
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by spijdar 5y ago
Absolutely, it was wrong for me to try and speak for everyone. In my own professional circle, this is what's accepted, but there are many who think otherwise, so my apologies.
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by spijdar 5y ago
That's fair. It's the attitude I've seen the most of in the people I work with/around, and it's rubbed off on me a bit. There are definitely people who believe this is a disservice to the users, and I don't nec
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by spijdar 5y ago
Oh, I 100% agree. The companies are more than capable of preparing fixes in that time. I meant from the perspective of the end user businesses, even if they prioritize the patches (which isn't a given) these vendors take ages to fix
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by spijdar 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification/correction. I have just one more thought on the matter. I'm still early in my career, but in the years I've spent so far working with small business-types on security, and watching my colleagues,
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by spijdar 5y ago
From someone mostly out of the drama loop, here's my brief recollection: Generally in the security sphere we consider it the most ethical and responsible to give vendors plenty of time to patch vulnerabilities, especially critical ones
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by spijdar 5y ago
This idea has been strongly rejected by the FSF/GNU group. Now, they don't have magical sovereignty over the word "open source", but as commonly used, especially in "these parts of the woods", most people will
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by spijdar 5y ago
I'm thinking of a few Phoronix benchmarks I've seen through the years. I'm not going to pretend like these benchmarks are the be all and end all, but I do think it (at the very minimum) compares run-times for common tasks. h
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by spijdar 5y ago
Ahh, that does sound like a nifty feature! I didn't mean to so strongly imply HAMMER was a knock-off ZFS, more that it fills a similar niche, similar enough that ZFS's dominance kind of takes away from the "wow factor" o
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by spijdar 5y ago
> For a lot of use cases, the kernel / OS doesn't make a huge contribution to overall performance. As long as you don't use something tragically bad, it'll be fine. This is what I was thinking, but did a poor job comm
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by spijdar 5y ago
I mean, the OCC and some of the other on-chip cores are based on the 400 series cores, but what I mean is there were/are tons of SoCs from NXP almost purpose built to serve as BMC-style control chips, with reasonably powerful cores and
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by spijdar 5y ago
For that to be impressive to me, I also want to know how Linux compares. I suspect that for most non-synthetic workloads, Linux will perform about as well. I may be absolutely wrong -- but my gut feeling is Linux is really good at scaling a
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by spijdar 5y ago
Yeah, with all due respect to the developers (because getting as far as they have is a huge accomplishment!) the biggest feature of DFly I can identify is HAMMER, which is most interesting if you don't want to use ZFS for license reaso
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by spijdar 5y ago
Technically unrelated, but it does beg the question of why OpenPOWER and friends haven't used any of the embedded PPC cores...
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by spijdar 5y ago
Well, yes -- it's nice and portable like that. I think at some point they got it building with PCC and TCC too? My point is unlike the other BSDs they haven't made a point of deprecating/removing GCC from the source tree, or
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by spijdar 5y ago
Illumos is a fork of Solaris, itself a UNIX System V derived OS, very much not a BSD, though taking some code from BSD. I'm not sure what license they make new additions under, but the core is CDDL licensed and not BSD licensed, anyway
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by spijdar 5y ago
It wouldn't, but they state that one of the benefits of dropping SPARC is being able to "[retire] the now-ancient GCC 4.4.4 shadow compiler that remains chiefly to support the SPARC platform" I'm guessing the problem isn
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by spijdar 5y ago
Not if you: a) use an OS besides Linux (and whichever other unix-likes that have wayland compat now, last I hear FreeBSD had ... some degree of support), and/or b) don't use wayland. Alacritty even works on Windows!
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by spijdar 5y ago
There are plenty of people who would donate a virtual machine or remote work environment for this sort of thing, if anyone was (seriously) interested in porting. Realistically, I doubt anyone wants to put that kind of effort in. Getting Fre
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by spijdar 5y ago
With the disclaimer than I'm primarily a Linux user and may be missing something from Microsoft, isn't it weird that there are no tools for this functionality that come with Windows? I've tried a few times through the life of
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by spijdar 5y ago
Like someone else mentioned below, B isn't really typeless, so much as it's all just one type, which was the standard for BCPL -- everything is just a word! If memory serves, part of what made C itself was adding "char",
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by spijdar 5y ago
I've got the backplane and boards to build a more-or-less LSI-11, the original system cloned by the Electronika 60. One day I really want to load the original Tetris onto it somehow... Would probably have to use a terminal emulator to
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by spijdar 5y ago
I think you're underselling it a bit. It's supported on RHEL, SUSE, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, several more niche distros besides, but aren't those the dominant OSes outside Windows (for servers/workstations)? Unless I&#x27
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by spijdar 5y ago
Interesting, this seems different than other reddit outages I remember. Many of those seemed to only effect the app or the new interface but old.reddit.com continued to work. This seems to be everything offline, and it's already gettin
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by spijdar 5y ago
Devil's advocate: the back of those drain cleaner solutions make a point that the solution should never sit or pool in any surface or pipe. You have to run water and chase it down so it doesn't corrode the pipes. I know where I
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by spijdar 5y ago
People most certainly don't eat sodium hydroxide on their pretzels anymore than they eat raw egg in their cakes. Coating pretzels with lye before baking causes a chemical reaction that consumes the lye. You really, really shouldn'
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by spijdar 5y ago
I think GP's point is, why are game consoles not expected to be open platforms, but the iPhone is? And who isn't to say Apple's business model isn't greatly tied to their closed platform? At least as far as public sentim
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by spijdar 6y ago
The author covers this. While there may be fewer copies in this condition, that condition isn't really intrinsically interesting in the way something that is actually rare is. At least for me, and apparently the author, the idea of a r
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by spijdar 6y ago
It goes back even further, actually, and provides another data-point for this aphorism. The Teutonic Order, a sort of ... indirect relative/precursor [0] to the German Empire/Republic which the Nazis grew in was notorious for doin

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